The UK can afford a multi-billion bailout of the Irish economy, Chancellor George Osborne insisted as he sought to ease Tory backbench concerns over...
A rally for European shares and the euro proved short-lived following fresh uncertainty over Ireland's planned rescue package.The FTSE 100 Index opened more than...
US stocks ended narrowly mixed amid anxiety over Europe's financial crisis and a widening probe into insider trading on Wall Street.Bank shares slumped after...
Labour leader Ed Miliband has welcomed a Nato agreement to return Afghanistan to the control of the country's security forces by 2014.Making his return...
Saddam Hussein's henchman Tariq Aziz is to ask for an Iraqi presidential pardon from his death sentence for persecuting opponents.His lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano...